I have been an artist since childhood- instead of selling lemonade, I sold drawings on the roadside! I have done many portraits for people using graphite pencils, and several paintings in watercolor, acrylic, and oil.  I love nature and photography and now printmaking as it combines so many elements of art.  My favorite is to observe nature and places I travel to, draw on site or photograph the scene to reference, then transfer an image into a carved block.  It is a wonderful process of drawing, carving, inking, printing, and then painting some with watercolor paints I have mixed myself from natural earth pigments.